Cheesy Feels. Salty Teens. Sugary Pop

My aim is big inclusive adventures with characters who make the reader care. I've been writing the adventures and characters for years. The reader is the important part.  

I am an unabashed nerd and goofball. I love reading about big ideas fully realized. when there's a cool concept, I want to see it test-driven to the fullest. That's what I hope to acheive -- the coolest test-drive of the imagination I can write. And I need drivers.

Inclusivity

Imagination

We live in a diverse world and literature is just now coming around to showcase this. While I'm not interested in comandeering the experiences of people unlike myself, I guarantee you my stories will be chock-full of the diverse tapestry of humanity. Humanity is wierd and eclectic. So're my characters.

I love adventure stories, if it's not obvious. And I feel often YA is limited by either trying to make the characters too adult, or making the world too jaded. I want that sense of adventure back, that wonder, that whimsy, that jazzed up feeling only teens can get from breaking rules or standing up to authority. The world is going to force people to grow up fast anyway. Let's not rush more than we have to.